Improvement in marbleizing paper



varnish be mostly used-with this color.

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invasive Thomascansomor. BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

r Letters Patent.1\lc.1 12,54{1, dated March 14, 1871.

INlPRbVEMEhIT IN MARBLEIZING PAPER.

To all whom it may concern: I

a Be it known thatI, THOMAS OAn'sornof Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and 1 State of New York,

. have invented a new and useful Improvement in Marbleizing Paper; and I'do hereby declare that the fol lowing is a full,clear, and exact description thereof,

which will enable others. skilled in the art to make and useth-esamer Thisinvention relates to an improved process of marbleizingpaper to be used on walls, fronts of counters, and for other uses. p

The well-known process of paper marbling at present in. common use isyasfollows:

Theoperator takesavat or bath of the necessary dimensions, in which heplacesa.solution of -gum tragacauth and wateiyfilling the vatto within a short it distance of the top. .He then takes the colors he requires for his purposetfichiefly of vegetable, but in some cases of mineral origin) and grinds or prepares them with watexg eachcolor being prepared-in a separatevessel. He then sprinkles each color on the surface of tlie'solution'with a brush, in the proportion .he deems necessary, these colors spreading therein of their own accord. 'A "comh is then used to modify the pattern-thus formed, after which the paper is gradually applied to the surface, commencing with one corner, until the whole hastouched the pattern. The

paper being then removed, this process is, as regards the formation of the pattern, complete.

The said inventioniiconsistsr First, in providing the paper with the ground color by applying any required plain color thereto b'ymeans of brushes or other means, or. it may be colored at the time it is manufactured; then a bath of water is provided,audthe color which is to most predomie natefbeing ground in oilan'd mixed with Demar varuish is floated on the'water bath and broken up by rapidly stirring with a stick; care is taken that the Thenrthe veining color, also ground in. oil and mixed with a 3 small amount of varnish, orin some cases none at all, is;floated orithe bath and rapidly stirred with astick. a

The Schedule refened to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

The color mixed mostly with varnish does not break up so fine as the one mixed mainly with oil, therefore the" former represents the larger pieces of stoueor marble, and becomes the most prevailing color, and

the other forms what are called the veins.

.When the bath is thus prepared, the paper, being tacked on a board, is dipped edgewise in the bath and then turneddown flat thereon, so that the liquid in the bath will flow over the whole surface from one edge to the opposite one and drive the air away, thereby preventing air bubbles, \vhich would be confined under the paper if 'placed flatwise on the liquid, thus preventing the blotches that would be caused by the.bub bles. I

. The paper is then taken out and laid, with the side which has received the floating colors up, to dry, after which it'is varnished, and may be polished, if preferred.

By a judiciousselection of colors the paper may be made inexact imitation of the most beautiful colored or antique marbles, such' for instance as the jasper, agate, malachite, lapt's laul'i, goldstone, nerd antique, Spanish Pyrenees, Sienna brocatel. Sisbum, Egyp- This paper may be arranged in beautiful mosaics in a variety of ways, as a veneer for walls, fronts of counters, mantels, hook-bindings, 8m.

Very light and thin paper will serve as well or better than thicker, as it is more easily made smooth upon the wall to which iti's attached.

Preferably, the varnish should not be put on till the paper has been .put on the wall or other surface to which itis to be applied. r

Having thus described my invention,

'Iolaim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent I The improved processherein described for marbleize i'ng paper, substantially as specified. 7

' THOMAS CARSON.

Witnesses T. B. Mosnnn, Gno. NV. MABEE. 

